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Reason Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
- We must sometimes get away from the Authorized Version, if for no other reason, simply because it is so beautiful and so solemn. Beauty exalts,…
- Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it…
- It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come…
- As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'
- I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It…
- Every object you see before you at this moment -the walls, ceiling, and furniture, the book, your own washed hands and cut fingernails, bears witness…
- Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian,…
- To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to…
- Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special…
- One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.
- Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
- What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by…
- ..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government of…
- God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and…
- An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
- Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
- If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it…
- It isn't Narnia, you know," sobbed Lucy. "It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?" "But you shall…
- If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but…
- You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up…
- Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted,…
- When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will…
- By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?
- Reality, in fact, is always something you couldn't have guessed. That's one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It's a religion you couldn't have guessed.
More Reason Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have… — David Attenborough